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Well you can call it eradication or whatever,
think what a public hunting festival this could have been
if they would have opened it up to hunters,
all the fees people would have paid going toward game management,
the fun of hunting and resolving an overpopulstion etc.
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This is not a game.. your reasoning is akin to decrying rat eradication, on the grounds that they might provide sport for someone and generate government revenues... only these are 200 lb. rats and far, far more destructive.
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Jeeze-we spend $$$ from the public trough raising fish/fowl/game to replenish animal stocks so we have something to hunt/fish, and this is a made-for-hunters scenario;
you know we have landowners here in Ca who are crying about pigs tearing up their property, except these same greedy B* want to charge hunter $500 to take a pig on their land-they are getting what their greed is asking for,
open it up to hunting, make the tags free or nearly free with no limit-and you have some exciting hunting for a lot of people
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That's why Oregon banned paid hunts for feral swine. But since you mentioned California, they made the mistake of classifying feral hogs as "game animals" and now their feral swine population is out of control. No one is going to come to your state and pay $71.54 for a hog tag.
You mention how much money we spend raising game animals for hunters, did you ever stop and think how much damage feral hogs do to native habitats and populations of said game animals?
It's a BIG problem, and you can either try to deal with it, like Texas, or ignore it like California.